Chapter 154: A Hermit with Long Daytime Dreams

After the domineering kiss, Sheng Yuan Yao felt a little regret. She was so nervous, and her first kiss was gone just like that. She didn't feel anything, it was a terrible waste... No, that's not right, how can she regret this! She should regret being so reckless, her lover is Shen Tang, what was she doing! Lowering herself? Giving him a free pass this time is enough, just treat it as being bitten by a dog.

Seeing Lu Xing Zhou still a little stunned, Sheng Yuan Yao "hmph"-ed and turned her head to leave. After walking two steps, she found her loose hair incredibly annoying and wanted to tie it up, but she didn't bring an extra hair tie. She stopped after just two steps, turned around, and grabbed Lu Xing Zhou's hand: "Give back my hair tie."

Lu Xing Zhou lifted his hand upwards. Sheng Yuan Yao held his arm, and she couldn't grab it on the first try, so she jumped up again to grab it. Lu Xing Zhou moved back, and Sheng Yuan Yao completely leaned on his body.

"Lu Xing Zhou!" Sheng Yuan Yao ground her teeth while leaning on his chest, "Are you using your good legs to bully girls? I should have known and made you sit in a wheelchair."

"A hair tie is a gift, how can you take it back casually?" Lu Xing Zhou directly put the hair tie into his ring. He supported her shoulder and turned around, hooking his arm around her shoulder as they walked towards the edge of the cliff. "Your hair looks great when it's loose, a classic long hair flowing, it feels especially good when the mountain wind blows."

You're quite natural, aren't you? What's the meaning of putting your arm around my shoulder like this? Sheng Yuan Yao was both angry and amused. She simply reciprocated the gesture and even patted him. "Xiao Lu Zi, if you're short on women, go find your Pei Green Tea. Teasing me is enough, be obedient."

The two of them arrived at the mountaintop edge in a few steps. There were two ancient pines here, vigorous and green, like twin dragons gazing at the lake. A shady spot was naturally formed between the two pines. Red flower buds that were about to open were entwined everywhere, and the air was filled with the fragrance of flowers. Looking back, the flower buds had climbed onto the eaves of the guesthouse roof behind them. The green pines and red buds contrasted with each other, creating an interesting scene. It was truly a great place to escape the heat.

"What kind of flower is this?" Sheng Yuan Yao had no knowledge of these things.

Lu Xing Zhou, who researched herbs, knew more than her, even though she was the master. "Ling Xiao flower. Its medicinal properties are sour and slightly cold. It enters the liver meridian and has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, resolving stasis and dispersing knots, and dispelling wind and stopping itching. It mainly treats blood stagnation, blocked meridians, dysmenorrhea..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Sheng Yuan Yao protested. "It's truly boiling cranes and burning zithers, spoiling the scenery."

"Ha..." Lu Xing Zhou put away his professional habit and laughed. "This flower is suitable for climbing, so it's very common to plant it in courtyards and guesthouses. The flowering season is summer, and it hasn't bloomed yet... but these buds are quite early."

"It's almost here, it's already March." Sheng Yuan Yao looked forward to it. "It must be beautiful when it blooms."

While they were talking, they naturally sat side by side between the pines, overlooking the lake below from the high vantage point. The tree shadows swayed, and the fragrance of flowers assaulted them. The kiss from earlier seemed to have been blown away by the mountain wind, leaving no trace. However, the slightly moist lips brushed by the mountain wind still made Sheng Yuan Yao's heart involuntarily feel a pang of bitterness. She felt nothing, she was such a wasteful old woman, and she had to pretend not to care after losing her first kiss.

Her long hair was inconvenient; the wind blew it around messily, and the strands brushed against her face, both itchy and blocking her view, making the distant scenery look a little blurry. Sheng Yuan Yao didn't know if it was because her eyes were out of focus or if the distance naturally made things blurry. That surnamed Lu hasn't spoken for a long time, is he savoring the taste after taking advantage? Sheng Yuan Yao secretly glanced over to see what Lu Xing Zhou was doing. She saw Lu Xing Zhou leisurely pulling the grass beside him and tying them together strand by strand.

Sheng Yuan Yao couldn't help but laugh. "Hey, how old are you?"

Lu Xing Zhou said leisurely, "Miss Sheng rewarded me with something good, so I'm tying grass to form a ring in return."

"That's how you use 'tying grass to form a ring'? You're quite cultured."

"Of course." Lu Xing Zhou was still grunting and rubbing the grass. "You asked how old... I really did think back to my childhood and remember liking to play like this. But this kind of simple happiness, I haven't had in many years."

Sheng Yuan Yao stacked her arms on her knees, propped her chin on her forearms, and turned her head to watch him play. She also felt that just sitting among the mountains, playing with grass and feeling the wind, this kind of simple happiness was something she hadn't had in many years either. His side profile is really good-looking... If he weren't so good-looking, she would have put him in prison the first day she saw him, the dead liar never spoke a true word. Now even her first kiss was cheated away, and even her hair tie was taken, he's simply not a good person.

Sheng Yuan Yao turned her head back and continued to look at the lake. The mountain wind blew her messy hair to cover her eyes again. Sheng Yuan Yao rested her chin on her arm, a little too lazy to move. Just as she was feeling troubled, a hand reached out from the side and gently helped her brush the messy hair behind her ear. Sheng Yuan Yao turned her head to look at him. Lu Xing Zhou smiled slightly. "You're facing the wrong way, turn that way."

Sheng Yuan Yao "hmph"-ed and angrily turned away, not looking at him. But she found that he was combing her loose long hair and gathering it into a bunch. Sheng Yuan Yao was a little surprised, then felt something tying her hair, re-tying it into a ponytail. Sheng Yuan Yao sat there quietly and let him tie her hair. Her heart started pounding again. She clearly knew he was teasing her, but it was like a warrior with a huge gap in strength; that long sword seemed to stab down from the sky, and she couldn't dodge it no matter what, one sword pierced her heart and tied it firmly.

"Look, the hair tie wasn't taken back, there's always a substitute, isn't there?" Lu Xing Zhou withdrew his hand with satisfaction and surveyed it from left to right. Sheng Yuan Yao turned around again, found that she couldn't see it, then reached out to touch it. As soon as she touched it, she realized it was the grass he had tied earlier. Sheng Yuan Yao was both angry and amused. "You just give me this kind of thing? It will break soon."

"This is a temporary substitute. Seeing how unaccustomed you are without your hair tied, I'll reluctantly tie it for you for a bit." Lu Xing Zhou surveyed it, quite satisfied with his craftsmanship. "Indeed, good-looking people look good in anything."

Sheng Yuan Yao didn't know what had possessed her. The person opposite her had clearly just given her something worthless, yet although she complained with her mouth, her heart was quite happy... if she knew, there's a word called 'romantic'. The corners of her mouth curled up unconsciously. "At least you have a little conscience."

Pei Chu Yun was quietly complaining to A Nuo, "Look at that worthless appearance." A Nuo glanced at her. This sentence sounds familiar. It seems like Yao Jie used it when evaluating you.

Pei Chu Yun touched her chin and surveyed it. "I have to say, this worthless item really suits her, especially the color."

A Nuo: "...You're not wearing anything at all, and the color is the same as hers. Is this a realm?"

Pei Chu Yun: "?" She suddenly remembered that she was busy eating Sheng Yuan Yao's melon, but she forgot that she was being greened! She was about to rush over and cause trouble when she heard Sheng Yuan Yao say, "You have a little conscience, but not much. You said you can write a famous poem here, quickly take it out." Pei Chu Yun immediately recoiled, her gaze flickering.

A Nuo: "...Your catching adultery thing?"

"For the sake of the poem, let the dog man and woman play a little longer, how about it?"

A Nuo didn't speak, but she actually wanted to say that she was afraid that after you listened to the poem, you would want to be played by him. Unfortunately, it was not appropriate to say this now, so she decided against it.

Lu Xing Zhou was saying, "There are many poems about wandering by the lake, and I wasn't sure what kind to use initially, but the flowers here are quite interesting... This time, I really have a poem." Sheng Yuan Yao nudged him. "Quickly say it, don't keep me in suspense."

Lu Xing Zhou gently chanted, "Twin dragons paired up, white armor and gray beard within the smoky rain. Sparse shadow and faint fragrance, below are hermits dreaming long."

Sheng Yuan Yao was a little startled, her heart pounding again. This wasn't chanting about the scenery, it was chanting about her. She couldn't reveal the hermit's dream in her heart, but he knew...

"You..." Sheng Yuan Yao started to stutter. "This, this poem, has nothing to do with this garden... This garden has mountains and a lake, there might not be any hermits..."

"Of course there's a lake." Lu Xing Zhou continued, "The lake wind is clear and gentle, twin magpies fly here to compete for noise in the evening. Green sways and red light, time descends on Ling Xiao, a hundred-foot hero."

Sheng Yuan Yao's appreciation skills were average, and she didn't taste how good it was. Anyway, there were trees, flowers, and a lake, so it shouldn't be bad... Her heart was mainly occupied by the sparse shadow, faint fragrance, and hermit's day dream, and her heart was still pounding hard to calm down. On the contrary, Pei Chu Yun, who was secretly listening from afar, was stunned there and didn't move for a long time. Her heart was much clearer than the less cultured Sheng Yuan Yao. This so-called hermit might not necessarily refer to a woman. This clearly describes the scenery outside the world, a recluse lying high among the mountains, full of immortal aura.

It seemed that until this moment, Pei Chu Yun suddenly realized that everyone cultivates immortals. But they have been trapped in the mundane world for too long and have forgotten their immortal appearance. In fact, even Lu Xing Zhou himself was thinking about this problem. The words were copied, but no matter whether he copied Li Tai Bai before or Dong Po's reclusive poems now, they could always bring people a feeling of immortal sounds from outside the world, at least more like immortals than most people in this mediocre world. Is it because of this point that cultivation in this world cannot catch up to ancient times? Flying through the air, riding the wind, driving the fog, soaring through the clouds have all become high-level pursuits that most people cannot hope for. How about even higher? They don't even have the qualification to hear about it.

Sheng Yuan Yao's eyes were bright. "I'll find someone to carve a stele and place it between these pines, and carve these few sentences of yours on it. Won't this garden become famous?"

Lu Xing Zhou didn't answer, and Pei Chu Yun silently recited in her heart, "It will." She herself had written several poems, and her level might be far inferior to this, and not as good as the few poems Lu Xing Zhou had given her before. But Pei family's talented woman's fame had already spread throughout the capital within half a month, and everyone admired her. If Lu Xing Zhou's few poems still couldn't suppress the field and spread a good name, that would be strange.

Sheng Yuan Yao said, "I'll find someone to instruct later. It's still early, do you want to go to the room and rest for a while?"

"Fox spirit, in broad daylight, you're inviting someone into the room, do you still want face!" Pei Chu Yun almost flashed over to make trouble. A Nuo held her back tightly. "Sister, don't ask for humiliation. How many times have you and Master been doing things in the room? You'll only be scolded if you go."

Just by stopping for a moment, Lu Xing Zhou and Sheng Yuan Yao on the other side had already entered the room and were out of sight. Pei Chu Yun said angrily, "You're clearly favoring Sheng Yuan Yao! You have a good relationship with her, you like her to be your stepmother, is that it! She's deceiving you, she'll really be your stepmother, and she'll hit you every day!"

A Nuo sighed faintly. "But sister, what's the use of you destroying it? You didn't dare to invest, that's on you."

Pei Chu Yun was completely silent.

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